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BOOK'GLASP. v No. 247,467. Patented Sept. 20,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

HENRY T. MORSE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO MICHAEL R. GATELY, OF SAME PLACE.

BOO K-C LAS P.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,467, dated September 20, 1881.

Application filed July 30, 1881 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: ject beyond the arm 1, and enable such orifice 50 Be it known that I, HENRY T. MORSE, of to engage with the stud c and to regulate the Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of length of the swinging member of the clasp, Massachusetts,haveinvented certain Improvethe length of said member being determined 5 ments in Book or Album Clasps, of which the by the distance between the operating-orificei'ollowing is a specification. and the pivot of the plate 2. It will be seen, 5 5

This invention relates to book or phototherefore, that as the distance between each graph-album clasps which are adjustable so orifice and the pivot varies, the length of the that they can be extended to clasp a book or swinging member varies with each change in album when the same has been thickened by the position of the plate. The clasp is thus the insertion of pictures or other objects. adapted to hold lids more or less widely sepa- 6c The invention has for its object to provide rated. an improved adjustable or extensible clasp, The plate 2 may be made of any desired form. which shall be simple and inexpensive in con- I prefer to give it the form of a leaf, as shown I struction, convenient in operation, and pleasin Fig. 1, this form imparting a pleasing and in g in appearance. ornamental efi'ect to the clasp. The plate may, 6 5

To these ends my invention consists in a however, be made in the form of a star, a butclasp the hinged or swinging member of which terfly, or in any suitable ornamental shape. is composed of an arm hinged, as usual, to I do not limit myself to the use of orifices one lid of the book or album and a plate pivin the plate 2 adapted to engage with a stud,

oted to said arm so as to rotate thereon, and for the plate may be provided with hooks arprovided with orifices at different distances ranged at different distances from the pivot from the pivot, either of said orifices being and adapted to engage with a suitable eye on brought by the rotation of the plate into posithe opposite lid without departing from the 2 tion to engage with the stud or fixed member spirit of my invention.

- of the clasp on the opposite lid, as I will now I prefer to interpose between the arm 1 and proceed to describe and claim. plate 2 a washer, to, to prevent the plate from Of the accompanying drawings,formingpart rubbing against and scratching the arm. of this specification, Figure-1 represents an Having thus described my invention, I 0 edge view of an album having a clasp embodyclaiming my invention. Fig. 2 represents a section 1. A clasp the swinging member of which on line :10 00, Fig. 1. is composed of a hinged arm and a plate piv- The same letters of reference relate to the oted thereto, provided with orifices or equivaif same parts in each figure. lent devices arranged at difierent distances 5 In the drawings, a 0, represent the lids of from the pivot of the plate and adapted to enan album or other book to be connected by my gage with the other member of the clasp, as 8 improved clasp. set forth.

b represents the swinging member of the 2. The combination of the arm 1, plate 2, clasp, which is composed of an arm, 1, of any and washer w, as set forth. 4o desired shape, hinged to the lid a in the same In testimony whereot'I have'signed my name manner that the swinging member or arm of to this specification, in the presence oftwo sub- 0 an ordinary clasp is usually hinged, and a scribing witnesses, this 27th day of July, A. plate, 2, pivoted at p to the arm 1 and projct- D. 1881. ing beyond the outer end of said arm. he 5 plate 2 is adapted to rotate on the arm 1, and HENRY MORSE is provided with two or more orifices, 0, each Witnesses:

located at a different distance from the pivot C. F. BROWN, from the other or others. The plate may be DANIEL MORRISON. rotated to cause either of its orifices to pro= 

